you know, i, one of the key reasons the mainstream media never tell you about why qaddafi was deposed. because colonel gadhafi proposed a pan african goal dina to replace the us dollar in energy trade kick out the petro dollar and bringing a gold. dina for we all know what happened to colonel gadhafi, you know, saddam hussein he had a similar idea as well. well, there we are. read more about it, it's r t dot com with act soon. we hope to see you at the top of the you know, there was no program when i left i kind of and all of us at life, esther hate kind of stumbled our way through it. and then we can take the lessons that we've learned from that and shrink the time frame down. so there's less was less wandering in the wilderness, so to speak. when i was in the move in the last 2 years before i left, i was struggling with do i want to leave? i like, pardon me, want to leave another part in battle with us. if i leave adolescent fall back on, i have that deposit to do or have nobody to go to. you know mean it hasn't lived around last 7 years. i have nothing. sometimes it's hard. if they

rebels that were formally fighting for qaddafi in libya limited his weapons box and came down into mali where there was a separatist movement. this has led to this spiraling cycle in which these militant groups have been gaining ground bust governments in the region, aided by u.s. training assistance funding, equipment, has been really waging their own wars on terror. the government-sponsored violence has been one of the factors that has contributed to these intensifying spirals of violence. blowback. so a lot of recruitment to these militant groups is coming in retaliation against government forces that in some cases are indiscriminately targeting certain ethnic groups. so it is one of these situations where there is a lot of poverty, corruption. people feel abandoned by the central government. the government is respond with force, and these situations are just getting worse and worse. 1 coumba toure, if you could also respond to secretary of state blinken's visit to niger and to the region, the first of secretary of state -- american secretary of state to the region. the significance

still, he is only the third serving head of state ever to get an a warrant arrest, the other two qaddafi of libya, killed four months after the warrant, and sudan's bashir who is supposed to be handed over to the icc, reportedly remaining hospitalized. we have more charges on putting in a moment but first i want to show you the exclusive access cnn has been given to the massive international security operation to keep vital infrastructure safe from russia's military in ukraine. the military that is reckless and irresponsible, in addition to targeting the structure. a military that russia continues to celebrate. the defense minister today decorating the pilot who took down that american drone over the black sea. even though it appeared to be accidental that they hit it. let's start with fred and his exclusive reporting on how the international community is bracing for possible new attacks by russia. he is out front live in norway, what are you learning? it's been mckay, we are learning that nato certainly is not taking any chances as far as that is concerned, they saw what happened to the

they underestimated the threat coming from libya where jihadist who had fought against qaddafi is regimee getting radicalise, which is what happened to salman abedi. thahk what happened to salman abedi. thank ou ve what happened to salman abedi. thank you very much- — what happened to salman abedi. thank you very much. let's _ what happened to salman abedi. thank you very much. let's turn _ what happened to salman abedi. thank you very much. let's turn to _ what happened to salman abedi. thank you very much. let's turn to iran where more than a dozen girls from 26 schools have reportedly been treated at hospitals for poisoning after a wave of toxic gas attacks on wednesday let's hear from some girls who were there. these clips are from iranian state media. we who were there. these clips are from iranian state media.— iranian state media. we smelled gas in the room — iranian state media. we smelled gas in the room that _ iranian state media. we smelled gas in the room that a _ iranian state media. we smelled gas in the room that a student _ iranian state media. we smelled gas in the room